Daily Yellowstone journal., 1887-01-25
DOLLS WIGS OF REAL HAIR.
A New Industry TO Meet the Demand, Of
Children of Means.

A New Industry to Meet the Demands Of
Children Of Means.
a new industry has sprung up on Fifth
avenue. 1t is the manufacture Of real
wigs for dolls out Of real hair, made bet
ter than many real wigs and sold at
prices that proclaim them to bc genuine.
The place takes up the whole first floor Of
. big house. The dolls wigs are only an
Incident TO the business. The first dolls
wigs were made this year. The head Of
the firm told about the way he happened
TO start making them:
"For several years | have had calls for
dolls wigs from ladies whose children
had torn the hair from dolls they were
much attached to. This season | began
g. make them, and | have received far
more orders Than | had expected. Here
is a doh that has been sent over Ia Phila-
delphia for is second wig"
The proprietor took the reporter TO a
counter where lay a beautiful doll about
two feet high, with ball and socket joints
and a pin complexion except where the
paint ha1 worn off. On its head was a
real wig { light blonde hair with a fluffy
bang frout and French twist curls behind.
The hair seemed to he glucl to the head.
yet thr wig came right of. Ii was as
neat a job and fitted as well as if the wiz
maker had manufactured it for a human
head. II cost only Sl2.
cit is becoming quite common con-
tinuel the mistress If the STORE. .'f0r a
doll to have two or three wigs. They are
got mp in all styles, like the wigs of a
fashionable actress, only smaller. They
are just as well made and just az valua.
ble in proportion. The hair is dressed bv
the little girl that owns the doll. and il
gives ker knowledge and experience that
will he useful. Two or three wigs in
different styles give the little girl a chance
tn develop her w ingenuity in arrang-
ing hair. BY the old way dolls hair was
made IL hngora wool and wa glued to
their heads. II was not like real hair
and it could not he dressed. II tore Off
anil that was the end II il.
'Dolls' wigs cost from s. to S25. The
81 wigs are for child dolls and have short
curls like "A little child's. The most costly
wigs are light shades Of hair. Light
shades of blonde hair cost three times as
much as brown hair. Some dolls have
light and dark wigs, which can IL, changed
b. match the dolls dress. \ ,lulI that
had a wig made for it last week had iu,l
got $3.50 worth Of winter clothing. Nou
can get n shade If wig Ia match any
dress.
$50 far have had orders for no rel or
gray wigs. They will probably come in
time. The latest thing in dolls i, loy
dolls. We have made several boy wigs.
A little Girl ont for a walk take, her biz
boy DOH with her. Or she may take a
girl doll and put a boys wig and clothes
on and take il out. There i, getting to
be a rivalry among families 10 scc who
has the hest and most fully dressed dolls.
IL is becoming proper for a little girl to
be escorted 10y her doll when she goes out
10 take "A walk. and Of course the doll
must le dressed in harmony with her
dress. / don't know what this fashion
for dolls will end in. but the trade in
dolls wigs is rapidly increasing. So far.
] believe, | am the only manufacturer.
IL takes a workman two days a. make a
dolls wig. and a brisk trade in dolls
wigs VIII make work. New York sun.